Over the pleasant din of a practicing high school marching band, members of the elementary school PTA held their meeting Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the recently completed playground that was purchased with PTA-generated funds.

Straining their voices over the brass-wind section, PTA announced that they were becoming a Parent Teachers Organization and that new fundraising money would go toward classroom teachers’ wish lists of class supplies.

“We don’t have a dollar limit,” co-president Jackie Futrell said, though she did say wishes for plasma-screen televisions would go ungranted.

“But VCRs are doable,” she said.

Volunteers were also solicited for PTA’s upcoming Chili Supper, being held Oct. 27 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Middle School cafeteria. The supper coincides with the school’s Fall Festival.

For $3, patrons will get a bowl of chili, a pimento-cheese sandwich, a cookie and lemonade. Preschoolers are free.

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